An exclusive poll for the Telegraph has found that almost three quarters of
people agree with Government plans to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days
before they are charged.

The YouGov poll comes ahead of today's knife-edge Commons vote and shows 69 per cent of the public support the raising of the detention limit for terrorist suspects from 28 days to 42 days “in exceptional circumstances". Only 24 per cent of those polled oppose the plans.

But are the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats right to oppose the Bill for being unnecessary and harmful? Have ministers “sexed up” the case for extended detention as Liberty’s Shami Chakrabarti claims?

Will our civil liberties be infringed by the Bill or does the terrorist threat justify these measures?

Is the Prime Minister right to accuse David Cameron of being on “the wrong side of the argument” and hampering Britain's anti-terrorist efforts? Or could this all be a purely politically-motivated move by Brown?